Posted on 08/27/2018 3:32:27 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Burdened by guilt over her knowledge surrounding the case, Marla Cooper came forward earlier this year, claiming she had a 40-year-old family secret protecting her uncle, a man named Lynn Doyle Cooper.
Marla Cooper said she was eight years old when her uncle, whom she called LD Cooper, came to her home, badly injured, for Thanksgiving in 1971 - the day after the infamous incident. He claimed his injuries were the result of a car crash.
Later, she said, her parents came to believe that L.D. Cooper was the hijacker. Mrs Cooper never saw her uncle again after that day and was told he died in 1999...
Marla Cooper also provided investigators with a photograph of LD and a guitar strap that he owned for fingerprint testing.
While the results of the fingerprint test have not yet been determined, authorities seem eager to end the investigation...
In addition, Marla Cooper said that her uncle was fixated on a comic book character named 'Dan Cooper,' the name the skyjacker gave the airline before boarding...
As for the $200,000 ransom, she believed Lynne Cooper lost it all as he parachuted to earth...
There were more than 1,000 possible suspects considered over the past four decades...
Many believe that Cooper was Richard McCoy, a Vietnam War veteran, experienced parachutist and BYU political science student who staged a similar hijacking several months later.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
I read recently that Hoffa was shot in the back of the head in the front foyer of a house after leaving a union meeting with a disloyal associate.
His body was then cremated.
The supposed house where he was murdered was recently investigated where they found blood between the floor boards.
He was killed in Michigan. The Boys would not take a stiff to NY.
The FBI essentially had the correct name? And they couldn’t crack this case? Between this and their political activities I’d say it’s way past time to shut this circus down.
"The FBI announced that no fingerprints had been found on a guitar strap made by L.D. Cooper.[139] One week later, they added that his DNA did not match the partial DNA profile obtained from the hijacker's tie, but acknowledged, once again, that there is no certainty that the hijacker was the source of the organic material obtained from the tie."
Citation 139: Jump up ^ McNerthney, Casey (August 1, 2011). "No fingerprints found on item in D.B. Cooper case". seattlepi.com. Retrieved August 2, 2011.
If someone was buried whole in concrete, eventually they would decay and there would be a cavity, which would eventually collapse upon itself.
Thanks, you're the first to notice one of those, I've done that a number of times over the years. :^)
And it sounds too elaborate to have been a real plan. The old classics work the best. In a century or so, when the name "Jimmy Hoffa" means nothing, the Ren Cen will probably be demolished, and they'll have to sort out which of the mob-buried remains are his.
The Toccos and Giacalones aint never saying and they are quickly dying out
Yes, there's a tiny little cavity, surrounded by curing concrete - concrete that will continue to cure for a couple of hundred years. As the sealed remains decay, the concrete will wick out the water over a long period of time. The concrete doesn't and won't collapse upon itself.
During large concrete pours, pains are taken to ensure no foreign debris enters the mix, like a scrap of wood, for instance.
You may be right, but I do know it is not an ideal situation for the integrity of a structure to have something so large as a dead body buried within its concrete.
Lots of care, apart from when the Mob wants to bury a body where no one will ever be able to look during the length of a human lifetime.
That article says the FBI tested LD Cooper’s DNA against the dna sample they took from his tie that was left behind and it didn’t match.
Right, and the print didn't match. But that doesn't mean he wasn't DB Cooper -- that's just whaat THEY want you to believe!!!
Adding to an old FR Article since this is from the National Enquirer. The deceased man ( Robert W. Rackstraw Sr.) is on the list of ten people who Might be DB Cooper:
From National Enquirer:
D.B. Cooper Mystery Man Found Dead!
Suspected 1971 hijacker took secrets to the grave.
By National ENQUIRER Staff
Jul 29, 2019 @ 14:00PM
The former military man suspected of being infamous hijacker D.B. Cooper has died taking the secret of his true identity to the grave!
Some senior FBI agents thought Robert W. Rackstraw Sr. a U.S. Army veteran and paratrooper who closely resembled the police sketch of the culprit was the parachuting thief who in 1971 jumped from a plane over Washington state with $200,000 in ransom money, according to sources.
But it wasnt until 2016 that Rackstraw was fingered by a team of codebreakers and 40 investigators as the man who pulled off historys most daring heist!
Now, in a world exclusive, The National ENQUIRER can reveal Rackstraw who died in his San Diego condominium on July 9 was known as Mr. Cooper at a marina where hed dock a small yacht.
Everyone would refer to him as Mr. Cooper. He even had a nickname, Airborne Bob, from some of the guys! a source snitched.
He was always boastful that nobody could prove anything!
PHOTOS: D.B. Cooper Skyjacker Caught Alive & Well
Though the feds ultimately ruled him out as a suspect, independent investigators said cryptic coding in a 47-year-old letter sent by Cooper to a newspaper proved the hijacker was Rackstraw!
The fact that code from Rackstraws three military units two of them secret until the late 1980s were embedded in the letter makes this the smoking gun! declared filmmaker Thomas Colbert, leader of the sleuths who claimed they unraveled the mystery.
Colbert believes Rackstraws dispatch was directed at three co-conspirators who according to FBI documents and witnesses helped him escape.
Read More:
https://www.nationalenquirer.com/true-crime/db-cooper-mystery-hijacker-man-found-dead/
Not “solved”.
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